supersrdjan

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by supersrdjan 4y ago
It's the lower case i, m, sh, t and p that all look similar in cursive. Here in print: и, м, ш, т, п (though t and p and t have little lines above them to differentiate them, and some people are taught to put a line under sh to distin
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
Word. I learned Orthic recently. It's easy to pick up, unlike the other system (at least that's my impression after a day of investigating)
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
I agree. I think it comes from school and parents instilling the notion that reading books is virtuous. The idea of being "well-read"
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
I used to keep a list like this (more modest though) but I stopped once I realized it's demeaning both to me and the books. The problem was that the list had no other purpose except as a kind of trophy case. I felt proud about my list,
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
I had read it only once but since then I frequently recall episodes from it more so than from any other novel I read
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
I came in to write exactly what you wrote. +1
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
Authors of the excellent "Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose," Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner, have this to say about Elements of Style: Strunk and White’s disarming treatment of what everybody really needs
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
One sentence per line can paralyze your writing. It invites you to over-scrutinize each line and lose sight of the whole. It's a view that's better suited for analysis than synthesis. So it's better for editing than composing
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by supersrdjan 4y ago
Combining #7 and #5 leads to: Often write the first sentence of a paragraph last, after you know what is the paragraph's main point.
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
huh... sorry, I don't know how to use hacker news to show you what I mean... it keeps squishing my lines.
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Oh, even hackernews ignores single line breaks. I wrote this coment like this: ``` Pandoc ignores single line breaks when exporting pandoc. So all of this would be treated as a single sentence [sic, I wanted to write "line"]. ```
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Pandoc ignores single line breaks when exporting markdown. So all of this would be treated as a single sentence. But an empty space in between indicates a new paragraph. If for some reason you require to have separate lines, perhaps when en
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Interesting take. On hackernews I also learned about an approach called "ventilated prose" or writing with "semantic line breaks." That is, when you write, say in vim or emacs, you put one clause per line. Then when you
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Can someone here give me guidance on neutering? Seems to me like such an abhorrent act. But experienced dog owners tell me that not doing it would be a disservice to the dog. Please discuss.
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Four-Quadrant Movie(en.wikipedia.org)
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Wow. That's an uncharitable interpretation. The way I see it it's just a guy sharing his ideas on his personal website while making it clear that the ideas are not to be taken as scientific claims.
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
The author, by the way, has a separate explanation about why he promotes pseudoscience: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Guru_promotes_pseudosc...
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
What is Adda? How is it different from people discussing about a topic? I don't understand from this article, but it sounds like something I'd like to know more about.
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Ah yes I am a cyclist and I approve this message. Reminds me of this saying from an Indian monk: Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet,It’s as if the whole world h
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
Actually advertising works best when it exploits the needs and desires you already feel. The farther away it gets from those, the more expensive it gets. That said, ever since the sixties it does sell things based on people's need to p
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by supersrdjan 5y ago
What are your most frequently recurring points of criticism and what type of ads you find elicit the least criticism?
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
Yup. Particularly the part where the sculptor modeled one of the minis after a lego prototype constructed by the son. Prototype: https://www.radgostforest.com/images/creatures/besomarLego.j... Sculpt: https:&#x2
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
I have a friend who will love to hear this. He is an engineer who spent the last six years of his spare time (together with his family) developing an ambitious board game[1]. It started as an after-school project to do with his son... then
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
Ironically, I like this author's style. It has a nice rhythm.
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
MF DOOM used language in such a unique way. Whenever your thoughts seem to settle into well-worn ruts, you can listen to some MF DOOM and all those weird bars and rhymes will stir things up in your noggin. There's nothing quite like it
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
Good observation. Writing lore romanticizes dysfunctional writers,fashioning them into martyrs of the craft. But among famous writers, plenty were well adjusted people. A book called "how writers journey to comfort and fluency" is
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
I was hoping the link would be for Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz, which is actually on Gary Halbert's (the author of the linked book) list of essential reads. The more advertising/copywriting books I read, the more I
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
Whenever a srs thread appears on hn, I hope that the mythical little fish will appear, the famed supermemo user of ten plus years who learned many languages with srs, then disappeared into internet obscurity
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
When I was a kid my dad prohibited me from using cheats in Civilization I :D And if I remember well, the cheats were readily available through a toggl in the dropdown menu
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by supersrdjan 6y ago
Our culture frames our relationship with our body as a struggle against weakness. This encouraged me to spend years trying to hack a solution that would allow me to eradicate the mid-day slump. I tried sleeping more, exercising, eating this

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